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Footkerchief

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Treat narrow/large/small as separate item types in stocks screen
« on: September 14, 2008, 05:10:03 pm »

Currently -iron chain mail- and -narrow iron chain mail- are treated as the same item when the stocks screen is in "grouped" mode.  They get grouped together into "suits of iron chain mail [42]" or whatever.  I would prefer having them grouped into "suits of iron chain mail [20]" and "suits of narrow iron chain mail [22]" instead.  This would make the new melt/dump/forbid controls much more useful.
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Re: Treat narrow/large/small as separate item types in stocks screen
« Reply #1 on: September 14, 2008, 09:26:09 pm »

I was thinking about it too. +1 to this suggestion.
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Re: Treat narrow/large/small as separate item types in stocks screen
« Reply #2 on: September 14, 2008, 09:42:02 pm »

Thirded.
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Re: Treat narrow/large/small as separate item types in stocks screen
« Reply #3 on: September 15, 2008, 12:22:47 am »

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Re: Treat narrow/large/small as separate item types in stocks screen
« Reply #4 on: September 15, 2008, 12:27:24 am »

Yes, please. 
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Re: Treat narrow/large/small as separate item types in stocks screen
« Reply #5 on: September 15, 2008, 08:32:23 am »

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Re: Treat narrow/large/small as separate item types in stocks screen
« Reply #6 on: May 18, 2009, 09:43:12 am »

What's about giving it an extra option for "exotic" armor? I think it is not important to seperate narrow from large from small things...
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Re: Treat narrow/large/small as separate item types in stocks screen
« Reply #7 on: May 18, 2009, 10:37:07 am »

You can set up a specialist Stockpile to accept all unusable metal armor and/or weapons and use that for easy designating.  I know that adds an extra step to the whole process, but it is a dwarven automated step.  Only problem is that you have to police your other stockpiles and make sure they do not accept the same items.
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Re: Treat narrow/large/small as separate item types in stocks screen
« Reply #8 on: May 18, 2009, 11:06:54 am »

You can set up a specialist Stockpile to accept all unusable metal armor and/or weapons and use that for easy designating.  I know that adds an extra step to the whole process, but it is a dwarven automated step.  Only problem is that you have to police your other stockpiles and make sure they do not accept the same items.
An option to "Exclude this item from all other stockpiles" would be useful for that.
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Re: Treat narrow/large/small as separate item types in stocks screen
« Reply #9 on: May 18, 2009, 12:15:26 pm »

What's about giving it an extra option for "exotic" armor? I think it is not important to seperate narrow from large from small things...
It's probably easier to just split things down as fine as they go, and it doesn't cost you all that many extra keypresses to melt down your narrow, large, and wide armors than it does to just melt the exotic armors.
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